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The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK
The world's most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown.
Non-consensual deepfake pornography websites and apps that “strip” clothes off of photos have been growing at an alarming rate —causing untold harm to the thousands of women they are used to target. Clare McGlynn, a professor at Durham University’s Law School, says the move is a “hugely significant moment” in the fight against deepfake abuse. The blocks on the deepfake websites in the UK were first spotted today, with two of the most prominent services displaying notices on their landing pages that they are no longer accessible to people visiting from the country.
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